Fellowships

CBMR Travel Grants

The CBMR awards Travel Grants to assist with transportation costs and subsistence expenses for a five-day research residency at the CBMR Library and Archives to support research in the study and performance of black music repertoire.

Rockefeller Resident Fellowships

During 1995-2006, the CBMR awarded eighteen fellowships based on competitive applications. The fellows focused on individual research topics and delivered public lectures. Some of them traveled to remote research sites and cultural centers that were pertinent to their particular research topics.

More than forty visiting scholars from around the world, representing a number of disciplines in the humanities, collaborated with the fellows during special reserach colloquia. Nearly 100 books, articles, and conference papers, all resulting from research done by the fellows during their CBMR residencies, have been published or presented at scholarly conferences.

The CBMR is the only organization to have won three cycles of Resident Fellowships in the Humanities by the Rockefeller Foundation. Funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for fellowships in the humanities is no longer available.

The CBMR Rockefeller Resident Fellowships:

1995-96: Music and the Other Expressive Arts: Relationships and Implications
Fellows: Johann Buis, Danille Taylor-Guthrie

1996-97: Music in the Black Diaspora: Focus on Latin-American, Caribbean, and U.S. Connections
Fellows: Robin Moore, Gerhard Kubik and Moya Malamusi

1997-98: Modes of Integrative Inquiry
Fellows: Julia Foulkes, Helen Walker-Hill

1998-99: In the Spirit of Paul Robeson: International Scholarship in Music
Fellows: James Hall, Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers

1999-2000: International Scholarship and the Black Expressive Arts
Fellow: Sterling Stuckey

2000-01: International Scholarship and the Black Expressive Arts
Fellows: Oliver Greene, Julio Cesar de Sousa Tavares

2003-04: Researching the Circum-Caribbean
Fellows: Kenneth Bilby, Dominique Cyrille

2004-05: Researching the Circum-Caribbean
Fellows: Timothy Rommen, Rebecca Sager

2005-06: Researching the Circum-Caribbean
Fellows: Yvonne Daniel, Ivor Miller

CBMR Fellows

2000: Hollis Liverpool*
2001: Marcello Piras

*Funded in part by The David R. and Roberta Rubin Visiting Artists and Scholars Fund of Columbia College Chicago